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| 22 January 2006: "6.3" |
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| So I finally got around to doing the news, and my clock tell me that it's already time for the next week's news. So for the first time in history, I'm going to combine two weeks into one and pretend the pervious never happened. History is being made right here, right now, folks! And you're all a part of it. Cool bananas. Movement #3 Hendrik Bunde is on fire lately, passing fellow drunk-smasher Marius Mollenhauer in the AF standings, and almost reaching #2 Jonathan Steel. Hendrik cut 0.9 off his AF, while the guys around him dropped a little. At the moment, #1 Segas stands at 3.84, with Steel 4.18, Bunde on 4.21 and Mollenhauer on 4.81. Seems like Jonathan and his best-friend Marius won't be separated for too long. During this time, Hendrik only scored 5 PRs, but two of them were Myth A, and three of them ranked in the top 3 for that chart. The ARR drop saw Hendrik get promoted to Myth B, squeezing in between Jonathan and Marius (who are both also Myth B). #10 Fernando Moritz dos Santos cut a full AF pt to overtake Paul Maes. Fernando now trails #9 Paul Tanney by 0.4 AF pts, but both players are tied in ARR. Fernando has also apparently switched to 50hz, so it would be interesting to see how far up he can go - there are eight 50Hz players ahead of him. While #14 Olivier Peruch and #16 Andreas Rudmarker reported some PRs and we're used to seeing them pass someone, they didn't this time. Good news for Andreas is that he was on 6.5 ARR before, and he improved 1 standard - that makes him now Titan+! Olivier is quite close to #13 Mike Hartjens though. Also in the same region, #18 Bo Garman has tied #18 Trystan Pugh in AF. Like Olivier, Bo doesn't have very far to go to reach the next playern up, #17 Rodolphe Gouet. USA's broze medal bearer #3 Alejandro Hernandez moved up another spot, and is looking for a top-30 finish. #30 Christian Kuklock is just 0.2 ahead, and #29 Kyle Clayton is another 0.2 after that - should be easy for Alejandro. Reaching #25 Gregor Fran is asking for another 5.0 AF pts. It's unlikely that Alejandro will cut 5 pts from playing nothing but MCT all week, but he's definitely active enough to pull off PRs. #46 Jean-Christophe Lacastaignerate made a jump in the ladder of almost 10 places! A nice way to reach the top 50 for him, scoring 19 PRs for a 12pt AF cut. He passed some French guys (Ghignet, Rigal, Seznec and Regeffe), as well as Jon Prentice, and is now waiting to pounce on another 4 French guys ahead of him (Eyma, Boisiaud, Chu and Foog), as well as Alex Penev. The big 1.2pt ARR cut also made JC our newest titan, at Titan D! #54 Karl Anders is building up the gap between himself and Ben Zeller behind him, and has closed the distance to #53 Rickard Lindell to just 0.3. A few more PRs should see him take the spot, but reaching the top 50 will require making up the large 5pt gap between Lindell and Yohann Ghignet. D'oh. Half a page-scroll below Karl, #67 Thomas van Leeuwen made a smaller cut, but was in a position to pass 4 players with it (DeLoriea, Smith, Taroni and Brown). I suspect that Thomas's current goal is #65 Rob van Zanten. Two places and 4 AF pts to go. #75 Benoit Boudreau had a nice 7pt AF cut to pass seven players. He is now 10 spaces from being Canada's top player, with #66 Simon Laflamme and #68 Matt Brown both being within 11 AF pts reach. He also reached Hero C. #86 Tom Salden made a 6pt cut to pass 10 players, including #95 Lars Nouwen, #92 Matt Flees and #88 Vincent Zee. No countrymen for Tom to target since he's the top Belgian already, but in case he's in the same mindset as Benoit and wants to punish Canadians, #85 Dave Phaneuf is just one spot ahead. Newcomer #100 Aron Langerak cut 17.5 AF pts in his first two weeks here. He pushed #101 Roman Tio down one spot, but #99 Nathan Cromwell luckily held on to his top-100 ranking. Being Dutch, you should expect Aron to go psycho every once in a while. His current set of times are inconsistent, with more than 100-rank difference between his best and worst positions. He'll probably iron out his scores in the near future. In his first two weeks, Aron cut 2 whole ranks in ARR, reaching Hero D. #122 Dan Furst has just passed 11 players, six of which were also from the USA. He is now leading one of the most USA-concentrated groups in the ladder, with the next target being #115 Derek Clark. He reached Expert A, too. #162 Sebastien Lussac has come back from 4 months absence with 17 new PRs, enough to pass 19 players. #161 Snorre Hakonsen (aka Norway's best ranked player) managed to sneak ahead of Sebastien in the last moment. Both players should be able to move up another few ranks easily, but reaching #157 Christophe Cosentino will need getting through a large 5pt gap. #207 Tom Baker had a great fortnight, scoring 27 PRs for a 41pt AF cut. It was enough to pass 34 players. It's a shame he stopped so close to the top-200 barrier, but at least he did become the newest Expert, at Exp D. #374 Linda Andersson and #378 Ben McElmurry are very near each other, but quite isolated otherwise. Linda is relatively new, and Ben is brand spanking shiny new, and you can expect them both to have lots of potential. Maybe they will push each other until they start to run into other active people. For now, Linda and Ben cut 41 and 45 AF pts this week, thanks to 31 and 32 PRs, respectively. Linda, however, has a coach by the name of #97 Jonas Natanaelsson... will the top-secret tips help her outplay the men? Honourable mentions: #40 Jake Sopcak (Titan C), #140 Matt Rosebraugh, #167 Dean Barnhart, #281 Ryan Brown. New Players Welcome to... lots and lots of historical people... Aron Langerak from the Netherlands (Hero D, 100th) Marijn Jongbloed from the Netherlands (Exp C, 158th) Scott Black from Canada (Newbie, ~633) Roland Huszak from Sweden (Beg D, ~616) John Furtney from the USA (Beg D, ~595) Jordan Hurley from the USA (Beg C, 489th) Ben McElmurry from the USA (Int B, 378th) Emile Broekhuizen from the Netherlands (Beg B, ~546) - a name to out-cool Enzio Fruijtier after all this time?! Chris Clark from the UK (Newbie, ~633) Dan Phillips from the UK (Beg A, ~495) New Movies Hendrik Bunde, BC 2'19'0 Fernando Moritz dos Santos various vids, latest ones include 1'43'9 33'6 DDJ. Bo Garman, DC 31'8 1'38'5, BC 45'6 2'19'7, RR 2'59'2. |